books.google.com - Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz AwardThis is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a rescue...https://books.google.com/books/about/In_Darkness.html?id=rz-518EOKvkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIn Darkness

In Darkness

Review: In Darkness

Editorial Review - Bookreporter.com - Norah Piehl

To call Nick Lake's IN DARKNESS a book for young people is to do it a disservice. Certainly it should be read by anyone who would benefit from a richer understanding of the troubled country of Haiti. But, after all, couldn't that apply to the vast majority of Americans today, regardless of their age? When most of us saw a Haiti torn apart by earthquake devastation in January 2010, those television ...Read full review